10/6- Fall Conferences 3:15pm-7:15pm

10/7- National Walk To School Day

10/7 - PTA Meeting @ 6:00pm

10/9- No School (ECE)

10/9 - Community Conversation 8:00-8:45 cafeteria

10/12- Indigenous People’s Day

10/12- No School

10/13-10/14- 5th Grade Trip @ Balarat

10/14- Walk Up Wednesday

10/15- CSC Meeting @ 5:00pm

10/16- Coffee with Columbine @ 8:10am

10/16 - Community Movie Night @ 5:30pm

10/17- Fall Festival 

10/21- Donuts @ Drop Off

10/21- PAC Meeting @ 8:15am

10/27- Kinder COL @ 2:00pm

10/29- Crew Day

10/29- Student Of The Month Assembly

3rd-5th @ 8:15am-8:50am

ECE-2nd @ TBD

10/29- Halloween Parade TBD

10/29- Popcorn “Friday” on Thursday @ dismissal

10/30- Professional Development (No School)

Here is the 26-27 District Calendar

Here is the Columbine 26-27 Calendar 

Walk-up Wednesday is held the second Wednesday of each month! The Black Excellence Crew's next WUW is October 14th. 

Please use this Walk Up Wednesday Volunteer Sign-up link if you would like to volunteer

Ms. Burger's crew was our FIRST crew to get 10 ice cream scoops. Our crews earn scoops when they have 95% attendance or better. We are looking for the next two crews to earn their 10 scoops. Thank you all for ensuring that your students are here all day everyday when they are healthy! 

This week in Crew we are focusing on:  EMPATHY

Learning Targets:

I can use kind words and be helpful to my crew (ECE-2)

I can name my feelings (ECE-2)

I can be kind to myself and others

I can be aware of my own feelings and the feelings of others (3-5)

I can solve problems with my crew and take accountability for my actions (3-5)

We are still focused on Hispanic Heritage Month! 

Family Book suggestions to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

Our upcoming Coffee with Columbine on October 16th is going to be a time for our incredible and willing volunteers and any prospective volunteers. We hope that anyone who has signed up to be a volunteer in our library, in our lunch/recess program, as a crew hero, or beyond will prioritize this time together with our school team. This will be a time for our volunteers to come together, build their intercultural competence, run through some scenarios together, and ask questions about how to ensure we are all supporting all students, everyday! 

We hope you all will join us for our special TWO-day event this year. We will start on October 16th with a Movie Night on the Columbine Field. We will follow that with our Fall Festival on Saturday, October 17th. This is one of our favorite events as it brings the whole community together for games, fun, pumpkins, and connection. 

Some notes: during movie night and the Fall Festival, we ask that if your child uses the restroom, an adult accompanies them into the building. And as a reminder, no dogs are permitted on school grounds and no alcohol, drugs, or tobacco can be consumed on school property.

Thank you all who attended night one of conferences! Our next conference night is next week on Tuesday, October 6th.  If you haven’t already, please be sure to sign up for a conference time with your child’s teacher using this link.

Before your conference, we encourage you to review the student data report that came home in Thursday folders last week. Taking a few minutes to preview your child’s current data will help you come ready to celebrate their growth, ask questions, and partner with their teacher around goals and next steps.

We look forward to connecting with you and talking together about your child’s learning and growth!

For three years we have engaged as a school community in the Intercultural Development Inventory, monthly Community Conversations, and a book group around diversity and how to support diversity in our school.  This year will be no different.  Any family member who wants to take the 50-item Intercultural Development Inventory for free and have a conversation about the results, please send your email address to Corey at corey_jenks@dpsk12net. Sixty-seven family members have engaged with it in past years!

Learn more about the IDI here

We also offer a book group that selects one book on diversity and then discusses a chapter from it every 3-4 weeks as well as a monthly Community Conversation that takes place in the Columbine cafeteria from 8:00-8:45 the second Friday of every month (Oct. 9 , Nov. 13, Dec 11, Jan. 15, Feb. 12, Mar. 12, Apr. 9, and  May 14).  Please join us for any and all activities!"

Attendance MATTERS! At Columbine, we want our students here learning every day! Arriving on time and staying until the end of the day ensures your child receives every minute of necessary instruction and crew connections. Our goal this

This week, our overall school attendance percentage was 93.55%. 

We had our first CSC meeting of the year on Thursday, September 17th. 

Here are the meeting minutes in English and Spanish 

Additionally here is the deck we used to share information. 

CSC will be meeting the third Thursday of each month from 5:00-6:15. We will always have a virtual participation option with this same link each month. 

Our next CSC meeting will be on October 15th from 5:00-6:15pm

CSC Information

Thank you to all who attended our first meeting after BTSN! If you were unable to attend, it's not too late! You can catch up on what we talked about here and join us anytime! 

Cougar Crew Heros need YOU!

If you would like to help support our teachers this year, please join our Cougar Crew Hero team (formerly Room Heros).  Crew Heros will work directly with teachers on small projects throughout the year and the time commitment is approximately two hours per month,  Please know you are not required to join the PTA to be a Crew Hero and there is no financial commitment to help support our staff.  

Fall Festival is upon us! 

This year, Fall Festival will be a two day event: a community movie night on Friday, October 16 and the Festival on Saturday, October 17th.  If you would like to join the planning committee, join our virtual meeting on Wednesday, September 16th at 5pm! Can't join the meeting, but still want to help out and/or sponsor an event, please email columbinecougarspta@gmail.com.

Monthly PTA Meetings

Our monthly PTA meetings will be held the first Wednesday of each month at 6pm in the library.  The next meeting will be October 7th; dinner, childcare as well as a virtual option will always be provided! 

If you would like to purchase a book for our LEAP library, please see this book suggestion list here. If you purchase a book, please check it off the list and bring it to the front office!

32 books have already been purchased, can we get to 50???